A study of the effect of disruptions on the performance of software engineering teams

2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 417-425

  Karn, J S ^a   Cowling, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnographic Observations; Group Work in Software Engineering; Jungian Personality Types; Myers Briggs Type Indicator

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS;

ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS; GROUP WORK IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; JUNGIAN PERSONALITY TYPES; MYERS BRIGGS TYPE INDICATORS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749075120     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2005.1541850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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